Example sentences of "the [num ord] us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly before the joint statement was issued , Coopers & Lybrand became what is thought to be only the second US firm to file a countersuit against a former client . |
| 2 | The second US reaction was to reassure the West Germans that Washington was happy to leave the details about what we might now call the eastern provinces in Bonn 's hands . |
| 3 | It will be the 32nd US space shuttle mission , and the seventh since the Challenger shuttle exploded in flight in 1986 . |
| 4 | Patel 's temporary restraining order was lifted by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on April 19 . |
| 5 | In other abortion-related developments during April , the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 1990 anti-abortion law which had been passed in the US territory of Guam[seep. 37310 ] . |
| 6 | Digital Equipment Corp is the first US computer major to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Romania , its seventh in the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 7 | The probe would be the first US craft to visit Mars since 1976 . |
| 8 | November 6 : Night fighters , with emphasis on the 50th anniversary of the first US Navy night fighter intercept , with the F4U Corsair . |
| 9 | In 1856 the first US consul , Townsend Harris , arrived in Japan , and it was largely due to his tenacity , and his use of the British as bogeymen , that the July 1858 US Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce was concluded . |
| 10 | The MMI was the first US index option to be traded outside the US , and is specifically designed to enable European investors to deal in US stocks before Wall Street opens . |
| 11 | It was the first US test of the prince 's popularity since his split from the Princess of Wales . |
| 12 | Sun has followed ICL Plc in adopting Boulder , Colorado-based Exabyte Corp 's 5Gb EXB-8500 Cartridge Tape Subsystem , becoming the first US firm to do so . |
| 13 | BRITAIN should hear the first US election result around 11.30pm tonight . |
| 14 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 15 | The first US space walks for five years were made during the shuttle mission , one in an emergency to free an antenna on the GRO which had failed to operate , and the other to test equipment for the construction of the proposed Freedom space station . |
| 16 | The CD market in London started in 1967 with the issue of the first US dollar CD ( that is , it was strictly the euro-CD , ECD , market ) . |
| 17 | ‘ George Bush to be the first US President to visit a free Cuba ’ headlines the far-right Miami Diario de las Americas , carrying , on its inside page , details of how to phone Cuba and send over food parcels , as well as where to register your confiscated property for repossession after the regime has gone . |
| 18 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 19 | He was a founding member of the John Birch Society , an ultra-right group named after the first US soldier to be killed in the Korean War . |
| 20 | It is no accident that 1971 was the year of the first US trade deficit , the year that the US devalued the dollar and abandoned the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates , and also the year that Nixon and Kissinger went to Moscow and initiated detente . |
| 21 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 22 | The first US bank branches were established mainly in China and Latin America to facilitate trade finance and supplement , in most cases , unsophisticated local banking structures . |
| 23 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 24 | Between 400 and 500 Iraqi troops were reported captured during the fighting , while 31 US personnel were described as missing or captured , including a female Marine who was thought to be the first US woman soldier to be captured by an enemy force . |
| 25 | Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky and becomes the first US chess champion : posing the question , Where is Reykjavik ? |
| 26 | Their convictions were overturned on a technicality by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals leading to their retrial in 1991 . |
| 27 | On Aug. 30 , however , the 5th US CIrcuit Court of Appeals denied motions by the Attorney General of Louisiana to expedite a hearing on the issue in order to obtain an early consideration by the Supreme Court . |
| 28 | The most recent , involving the claim that his mental state might not have been adequately conveyed to the jury during his original trial , had been upheld by Judge John Noonan of the Court of Appeals of the ninth US Circuit based in San Francisco , on March 30 , 1990 . |
| 29 | The Pennsylvania law had been considered by the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia in October 1991 . |
| 30 | Pan Am , the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991 , was founded in 1927 and became known for expanding air routes to south America and pioneering US air travel to the Far East . |